Wouldn’t automatically abolish all requirements; maybe I’m not good enough in searching but to the degree I’m not an outlier:
With internet we have reviews, but they’re not always trustworthy, and even if they are, understanding/checking/searching reviews is costly, sometimes very costly.
There is value in being able to walk up to the next-best random store for a random thing and being served by a person with a minimum standard of education in the trade. Even for rather trivial things.
This seems underappreciated here.
Flower safety isn’t a thing. But having the next-best florist to for sure be a serious florist person to talk to, has serious value. So, I’m not even sure for something like flowers I’m entirely against any sort of requirements.
So it seems to me more a question of balance what exactly to require in which trade, and that’s a tricky one, but in some places I lived seems to have been handled mostly +- okay. Admittedly simply according to my shallow glance at things.
Lived also in countries that seem more permissive, requiring less job training, but clearly prefer the customer experience in those that regulate, despite higher prices.
Then, I wouldn’t want the untrained/unexamined florist to starve or even simply become impoverished. But at least in some countries, social safety net mostly prevents that.
Wouldn’t automatically abolish all requirements; maybe I’m not good enough in searching but to the degree I’m not an outlier:
With internet we have reviews, but they’re not always trustworthy, and even if they are, understanding/checking/searching reviews is costly, sometimes very costly.
There is value in being able to walk up to the next-best random store for a random thing and being served by a person with a minimum standard of education in the trade. Even for rather trivial things.
This seems underappreciated here.
Flower safety isn’t a thing. But having the next-best florist to for sure be a serious florist person to talk to, has serious value. So, I’m not even sure for something like flowers I’m entirely against any sort of requirements.
So it seems to me more a question of balance what exactly to require in which trade, and that’s a tricky one, but in some places I lived seems to have been handled mostly +- okay. Admittedly simply according to my shallow glance at things.
Lived also in countries that seem more permissive, requiring less job training, but clearly prefer the customer experience in those that regulate, despite higher prices.
Then, I wouldn’t want the untrained/unexamined florist to starve or even simply become impoverished. But at least in some countries, social safety net mostly prevents that.